Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-14
Death of Mrs. Congressman TAYLOR.

Death Of Mrs. Congressman Taylor.
Many of our citizens were saddened
on Saturday by the announcement of the
death of Mrs J. ID. Taylor, wife OF the
congressman from this district, which
occurred at her home, in Cambridge on
Saturday, from Inflammation OF the
brain. The funeral services were held
on Tues day, at her late residence, and
were conducted by Rev. j. Brown, past
tor of the NJ. E, church, in Cambridge
Rev Clark. If the A. NJ. E. church, made
the opening prayer, and Rev. DIR. Me-
! Farland. of the U. 2. church. Cambridge,
Rev. DR. A. II. NorerUss, of Pittsburgh,
Rev, DIR. w. H. Locke, of Ravenna, ano
Rev. DR.. Jas. R. Mills. of MassillOn, de-
liveTed addresses, i'll which trey htly
portrayed the beautiful life and charac-
ter of the deceased. The large multi
tude of people gathered from near aud
far-from all walks of life, who came TO
look for the last time upon the face of
the dead benefdctress, attested in no
unmeaning way, the high esteem in
which she was held, and the loss they
felt because of her death. Men and
women of culture, position and inhut
ence, in the prime of life, who were IA
vored by an acquaintance, and who
were charmed by her social aLtainments
and unaffected gentle mannerS-men
and women whose faces were bronZed
and whose hands were hardened with
toll, who have received inspiration from
her kindly words of sympathy, ,and whose
burdens were lightened by her unpreten-
tious chaIity-childTen- school chill
dren, who sought her simple friendship,
and smile from her kindly face, and
who were always anxious to accord to
her place within their radiant circle
alike Wed with each other to show re-
spect to her memory. The town of Cam
bridge wore funereal appearance, its
business houses being closed during all
the time the services were in progress.
1t was fitting that such genuine mourn
ing should prevail. A woman of rare
good sense-One of sterling character
one possessing we'll rounded life-ODe
whose life had been spent in doing good
"a friend to the poor and distressed
a pillar in the church-a servant of the |
Master-an ornament to true home |
and So =iaty-a wife and mother of |
matchless goodness, bad gone out forev-
or from among them. A husband, whose |
life has been one of devotion "a son,
just entering young manhood ,and daugh-
ter bl oming into lovely young woman
hnoo Are the immediate family bereft |
Oy tu.s affiic,iOn.
Below we append an account of the |
last illness of Mrs. Taylor, and brief |
sketch of heI history prepared by one
familiar with her life and character:
Through the open window looked the skies
Into the chamber where she lay;
And the wind was like the sound of wings
As if the angels came to bear her away"
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Taylor, wife of Hon.
Joseph D. Taylor, Member of Congress for the |
Seventeenth District of Ohio, died at her home |
in Cambridge, Ohio, on the morning of the 9th |
of April, 1887, of meningeal Inflammation,
after four weeks illness, dating from her return
from visit to Washington, D. c., the week |
following the adjournment of congress. She
was not regarded as dangerously i'll until with
in a week preceding her death. Eminent
medical aid was summoned but to no avail
and she sank gradually into the arms of death,
passing away peacefully on Saturday, as the
warm April sunlight flooded the fields.
Elizabeth Ann Hill was born April q, 1888, |
at North Berwick, Maine, the daughter of Will
liam Hill and Elizabeth Buffum. Her parents
were OF long, New England ancestry, sturdy
adherents of the Quaker faith, in which she
was reared. She received an excellent COM
mon school and academic education, and ac-
quired valuable business training by assisting
her father, prior to her marriage, in the con-
duct of large manufacturing business. She
met Colonel Taylor while on visit to Cincin-
natl in 1864, and while he was stationed there
as a judge advocate. They were married at
North Berwick, Me-, Dec. IL, 1865
Upon her removal to Cambridge as tie head
of her husbands home, she united with the
Methodist Episcopal church, OF which she be-
came prominent and valued member, always
jealous and untiring in its work, contributing
liberally to everything which would forward .
the Masters Kingdom, help the needy or uplift |
the fallen, and recognized as leading, willing
and able spirit in all departments of church
work.
She drew many friends to her from every
grade and rank by her unaffected sincerity and
ready sympathy. Socially, few women were
more winning. Well informed in every depart
ment of literature, and close reader and
student OF current events, she had few superiors
as cOnyersationaist or writer. Her estimates
of men and things we're quickly but carefully
formed and seldom wrong. Many learned in
the growing years to lean upon her strong
judgment, which never failed them.
OfinbOrn integrity and a rigid devotion to
principle, exact in her conceptions of tho right
and unyielding in her allegiance to it, she was
in all things liberal, owning that charity which
sufereth long and is kind. Many were cheered
by her words of loving kindness and. through
her influence turned their faces from the dark
ness once more toward the light; to them her
life was a benediction whose sweetness death
can not destroy.
The conviction that the end was near seams |
to have been with her for some days One
week prior to the day of her death she wrote
letter to her class of girls in her Sunday school,
concluding with yearning and prescient benison
of love-"May the true God be with you all
and every one, forevermOre."
1t is scarce month since the writer sat with
her and looked upon the meadow hills which
the window view commanded, and she remark
ed with the nature-worshper's thrill of delight
in her tone, that spring was not far away, for
already the grass was turning green. But just
as the buds are breaking and the daffodils,
emblems of the resurrection, are blooming in
the garden borders, just on the threshold of the
Easter festival of gladness, her feet have gone |,
down to the rivers brink and through the dark
waters swellings she has passed-guded by
Gods angels into the land where spring is
perennial and bright flowers bloom eternal,
into the rest that remaineth for the people of
God. The love of the precious dead for her dear
ones, unfaltering here in devotion, is forever
imperishable there, and the shadows fold back
ward concealing their sorrow in
''The light of that love- oh? so tender
Besming ever in undying splendsr l.
Through gates that stand open for ave-"
A GANG of nearly two hundred en-